Improved hobse-shoe



@uitrit tutes @anni @ffice ALBERT S. WILKINSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODEl ISLJND.

" Letters Patent No. 61,973, dated February 12, 1867.

IMPROVED HORSE-SHOE.

To ALL WHoM 1T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ALBERT S. WILKINSON, of Pawtucket, in the county of Providence, and'State of-Rhode Island, have invented a new and improved Rubber-Soled Horse-Shoe; and I do hereby declare the'followig to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, suieient to enable one skilled in the art4 to which the invention appertain'sto makeuse of it, reference being had 'to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specifica-tion, in which- Figure l is a top view of my improved shoe, in which the rubber soleextends over thelwhole sole of the foot; and p f Figure 2'is a. vertical longitudinalsection taken in t-he line z z, fig; 1.

i This inventionrelates to an improved shoe to prevent slipping on pavements, ice, etc., and consists in providing for shoes of animals a Ysole of rubber or other elastic material extending over the entire sole of the foot, as hereinafter' set forth. p V

B is the rubber sole, which is extended over the entire sole and the whole hollow of the foot; R is 'a heel` flap,- whioh is employed to prevent dirt entering at the heel and lodging in between the rubber sole and-the sole of the foot, the said heel-lap R being fastened up behind the heel. This shoe has a fair lower face, as shown by the section, fig. 2, and has a, skeleton iron or steel plate,` a, embedded in its outer edge to gveit` proper rigidity at the edge, and also to aid in securing the shoe to the foot in a substantial manner. P is an air-cushion so shaped as to t around the frog and accurately fill the hollow of the foot; k `is a metallic shield or thin plate of metal cast in the rubber sole, and guards the sole of the footV from nails, broken glass, etc., which might otherwise 'penetrate or prick through therubber sole B, To give'this ishoe increased bite, the whole lower face of the rubber sole may have coarse emery or other gritty material fixed thereon when the `shoe is manufactured.A

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as `new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. I claim a rubber soleB extending over the whole sole'of the foot, in combination with a stiffening metallic shoe a, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. And in combination with the above I claim the metallic shield lc, substantially in the manner and fof the purpose set forth. i

3. I claim the air-cushion P, in combination with the flap R, substantially in the manner and'for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT S., WILKINSON.

Witnesses:

E. P, PATERSON, W. W. BLODGETT. 

